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Ohio Thematic Unit Planning with ThinkCERCA: ELA

Elizabeth Riley

Updated October 10, 2018 18:18

ThinkCERCA offers a wide variety of Ohio Learning Standards-aligned lessons that can easily integrate into your curriculum. These lessons include differentiated sets of applied reading and writing lessons—based on both informational and literary texts—as well as direct instruction lessons to introduce or review key literacy concepts with your students. The following English language arts sets and lessons are organized by theme for quick inclusion into units and address a key question for collaborative discussion and debate:

Theme: Individuals and Communities

Differentiated lesson sets (CERCA Sets) and suggested direct instruction lesson pairings for teaching standards-aligned key skills and conceptsGroup Decision-Making: What is the best way for a group to make a decision? (RI.3)

Suggested Pairing: Connections Within a Text (RI.9)

Communities: How do poets use language to help their communities understand and appreciate their experiences and values in ways no one else can? (RL.4)

Theme: Environment and Nature

Differentiated lesson sets (CERCA Sets) and suggested direct instruction lesson pairings for teaching standards-aligned key skills and conceptsNature: How do poets see themselves and their humanity reflected in the natural world?(RL.2)

Theme: Technology and Society

Differentiated lesson sets (CERCA Sets) and suggested direct instruction lesson pairings for teaching standards-aligned key skills and concepts 21st Century Learning:What is the best way to learn in the 21st century?(RI.2)

Suggested Pairing: Central Ideas (RI.2)

Kid Inventors: How have young people's inventions made an impact on the world?(RI.5)

Suggested Pairing: Organizing Arguments (W.1)

Technology and Impact: What problems has technology helped us solve, and what new problems has the introduction of technology created?(RI.2)

Suggested Pairing: Central Ideas (RI.2)

Technology and Art: How does our experience of literature change when it is delivered in different mediums?(RL.7)